Word: ring
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...dashboard release button, handy for quickly off-loading human cargo should trouble arise. The two women form an uneasy partnership and, of course, bad things do start to haunt them. There are the cops and the border patrol to worry about. Also the dangerous scumbags who run the smuggling ring. And the possibility that the ice on the river might crack under the car's weight...
...denial," Carolyn Jessop says, and Jeffs still commands loyalty despite his imprisonment. Jeffs moved the FLDS "aristocracy" to Texas, Jessop says, and little girls were given great status as they were married off to older men: "spiritual marriages" (polygamy) pave the way to the highest ring of heaven, and this enhances the girls' social position...
...aren't afraid to go straight to the top. "Requests from schoolteachers asking you to give advice to students on how to read literature," Simic says, "or from a business association in Topeka asking you to read a poem at the opening of a convention. My cell phone would ring, and a high government official would ask me to fix a poem written by her late father to read at his memorial service. Sometimes I wanted to go just to see who these people were, but you can't do everything...
...Commission report says Bulgaria's new anti-corruption agencies are effectively toothless and that there is no political will to deal with the fraudulent mishandling of E.U. funds. In one recent example, in February, police busted a criminal ring that had allegedly skimmed $11.8 million in E.U. farm subsidies by buying secondhand equipment for the meat-processing industry and presenting...
...criminal charges. Levine could receive 20 years in prison and a $610,000 fine. But if he helps Giuliani to apprehend new suspects, the sentencing judge is more likely to grant him clemency. Both the SEC and Giuliani are also receiving information from the so-called Yuppie Ring, a group of young Wall Street professionals who, in a case unrelated to that of Levine, two weeks ago pleaded guilty to charges of insider trading and obstructing justice. In that turbulent climate, the Wall Street Journal stirred up instant thunder last week by claiming that unnamed investment bankers at the houses...